Departments and Research Groups

Jürgen Renn

Department I: Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge

Director: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn

Research Scholars: Dr. Peter Beurton, Dipl. Phys. Jochen Büttner (until June 2001, now predoctoral research fellow) , Giuseppe Castagnetti, PD Dr. Peter Damerow, PD Dr. Dieter Hoffmann, Dr. Horst Kant, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lefèvre, PD Dr. Peter McLaughlin, Dr. Marcus Popplow, Simone Rieger, Dipl. Phys. Matthias Schemmel (until June 2001, now predoctoral research fellow) , Markus Schnöpf, Dr. Volkmar Schüller, Prof. Dr. Renate Wahsner, Dr. Paul Weinig (until November 2000), Dirk Wintergrün (until October 2001, now head of Information Technology Project Group)

Lorraine Daston

Department II: Ideals and Practices of Rationality

Director: Prof. Dr. Lorraine Daston

PD Dr. Matthias Dörries (until August 2001), Dr. Mechthild Fend, Dr. Anke te Heesen, Dr. Sarah

Jansen (until August 2001), Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Küttler (until April 2001) , Dr. Antoinette Roesler- Friedenthal, PD Dr. Friedrich Steinle (until August 2000), Dr. Fernando Vidal, Dr. Klaus Vogel (April - July 2001), Dr. Annette Vogt

Department III: Experimental Systems and Spaces of Knowledge

Director: Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

Research Scholars: Dr. Sven Dierig, Dr. Peter Geimer, PD Dr. Michael Hagner, PD Dr. Peter McLaughlin (until March 2001) , Dr. Andrew Mendelsohn ( until August 2000) , Dr. Staffan Müller-Wille, Dr. Thomas Potthast, Dr. Henning Schmidgen, PD Dr. Friedrich Steinle

Independent Research Group I: History and Philosophy of Laboratory Sciences

Established January 1999 for five years.

Director: PD Dr. Ursula Klein

Research Scholar: Dr. Peter Ramberg (until July 2001)

Independent Research Group II: Experimental History of Science

Established April 1999 for five years.

Director: PD Dr. H. Otto Sibum

Research Scholar: Annik Pietsch

Max Planck Society Research Fellowship for Outstanding Woman Scholars

Dr. Emma Spary (until September 2001)

Ursula Klein	H. Otto Sibum	Emma Spary